What happened on 8 April?

7 events from the Ever-When timeline, ranked by how much they mattered.

1. 1904 Entente Cordiale Britain and France settle colonial disputes and align diplomatically.
2. 1175 BCE Odysseus reveals himself to Telemachus Odyssey 16: in the swineherd's hut Athena strips the disguise, and father and son — twenty years apart — weep louder than birds of prey.
3. 1929 Bhagat Singh bombs the Central Legislative Assembly Singh and Batukeshwar Dutt throw two low-grade bombs into an empty part of the chamber and wait to be arrested, wanting the trial as a platform.
4. 1271 Fall of Krak des Chevaliers Mamluk sultan Baibars takes the Hospitaller stronghold after a month-long siege; one of the great medieval fortresses in Crusader hands.
5. 1341 Petrarch crowned poet laureate in Rome On the Capitoline Hill, Petrarch receives a laurel crown — the first since antiquity — and gives an oration on poetry.
6. 2001 The Tiger Slam Woods's 2001 Masters win makes him the only golfer to hold all four major titles at once.
7. 2024 Eclipse 2024 (North America) Total solar eclipse crosses Mexico, US and Canada.